Tonight was a first for me. I joined a bunco group and tonight was our first meeting. What a great time! Food, friends, games, and, best of all, wine! We spent the majority of the evening talking, getting to know each other, and figuring out how to actually play the game. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it is a dice game that 12 people play. There are 4 people to a table, 3 tables, and 3 dice per table. The person sitting across from you is your partner. You roll the dice and pray to God you get the number you want. For instance, we started with 1. You roll the dice to try to get a 1 on at least 1 dice. If you do, you get 1 point, and roll again. You keep rolling until you don't get a 1. If you don't roll a 1, you pass to your left. You add your points with your partners point. When your group reaches 21 you win! There is a lot more that goes into it, but this gives you the gist of it.
The plan is this, there are 12 people who play. You play once month and each person takes a turn hosting the game at their house. Each player brings $5 to go in on the prizes handed out the the winners (for us, there are 3 prizes and one surprise gift sponsored from the hostess). This is the best part! Something fun to do, once a month, with your friends and only costs you $5. And, you only have to host the games once a year! Can you get any better than that!?
Here's how you can get your group together:
1. Think about all your close friends and family. I suggest keeping it an all girl party, but there is no reason boys can't join in the fun! How many do you come up with?
2. If you need more people in your group, ask those friends and family who they know that would be interested. There are 12 people on the regulars list but you will need alternates, since not everyone will be able to play every month for the whole year. I would go with at least 5 alternates to be on the safe side.
3. Once you get a good amount of people on your list, pick a day and time. Set up an email list and email your group to find out if the day and time work for them. For instance, we are playing every first Tuesday of the month at 7PM. Look at the course of a year and what days those are. Run the dates by the group and find out if they work for the majority of the regulars. If you lay out the exact dates for people you give them all a chance to consider things that may arise during the year at those times and allows plenty of time to move it around if need be. We had to move our next months meeting to a Wednesday so the majority could make it for this reason.
4. Figure out your price. We chose $5 per person per game. I've heard of $10, but I bet you could do more or less, whatever works for you. This gives the host $60 to buy gifts for the winners, if you go with $5 per person. With $60 you can have a lot of fun!
5. Think about your food and drinks too. Do you want the hostess to plan everything or do you want a potluck? Who's in charge of what, if you are doing a potluck? I love potlucks, especially since you can get as lazy and cheap as you want. Tonight I cut up lunch meat and cheese, stuck tooth picks in, and pretended like I was a culinary Garde Manger expert! Ha!
If you need to get out of the house and have a girls night , but are on a budget, this is the way to do it! Just a couple hours and $5 later, I have had a great night and can't wait to do it again!
Have you played this game? Are you on a team? What are your rules like?
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